The 22nd annual musical satire for a good cause, “Off the Record,” returns to the Byham Theater on Thursday, Oct. 20 after two years of virtual shows.

KDKA’s Ken Rice is back as emcee extraordinaire, and Mayor Ed Gainey will be the featured speaker to get things started, according to organizers. In year 22, “Off the Record,” will feature Halloween, midterm elections, a new QB and stadium name for Steelers Nation, and generally pokes fun at local news and newsmakers. Narrators Rick Sebak, Doug Oster, Heather Abraham and Larry Richert will serve as guides through a storybook world where buses fall and rise, inflation is on the run and moviemaking enters the streaming zone. Lynne Hayes-Freeland and J. Kevin McMahon will be honored for their support of OTR and contributions to the vitality of our city.

“Off the Record,” is presented through the collaboration of three local unions – the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, SAG-AFTRA Ohio-Pittsburgh and United Steelworkers – and dozens of volunteers. OTR’s sponsors include KeyBank, UPMC Health Plan, Walnut Capital, ALCOSAN and Seneca Resources.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for preshow lobby food, cash bar and mingling; curtain’s up at 8 p.m. Tickets: $80, $50 and $30 at https://trustarts.org/production/83733.

In ’20 and ’21, the online audiences, sponsors and donors came through, helping to raise $58,000 for Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, representing 290,000 meals for Western Pennsylvanians with food insecurities. In the first 21 years, OTR has raised nearly $700,000, mostly for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, scholarships and other local charitable organizations.